Glossolalia — the term itself sounds like a different language, and that's just the point. Glossolalia, better known as speaking in tongues, occurs worldwide in many religious communities, ...

To most, speaking in tongues is an experience few and far between, but it was nothing unusual for the women’s prayer group pictured here. The phenomenon of talking in an unknown language, also known ...

The early Christians were much impressed by the phenomenon known as glossolalia (literally, “speaking with tongues”), which appeared at the first Pentecost: “And they were all filled with the Holy ...

The focus of this documentary film originally titled Speaking in Tongues The Unspeakable Speaking Glossolalia among Natives Christians as an Emergency Language and Poetic Experiment was the ...

The so-called “charismatic gifts”—prophecy, spiritual healing and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues—have long been characteristic of the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects. Increasingly, ...

Sometimes called glossolalia, speaking in tongues is the practice of speaking in a language the speaker does not know. Those who speak in tongues say the Holy Spirit forms the words as they speak out.